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# Re: Use for $call_verb

- Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 17:04:07 PDT
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    On Fri, 2 Aug 1996, Jefferson M. Dubrule wrote:

    <snip>
    > {2,1,4,3}:sort();
    >
    > This would call $call_verb({2, 1, 4, 3}, "sort", {}), which would call
    > $list_utils:sort({2, 1, 4, 3}), which returns {1,2,3,4} to $call_verb, which
    > passes that back to the player.  This seems like a very cool thing to do,
    > OOP-wise.
    >
    > Comments?

    It would certainly be a step in an object-oriented direction, but it seems
    like you are essentially asking for a way of kludging frobs in-db.  If the
    example you provided was the primary use you had for this function,
    "frobs" or other lightweight objects seem to be what you actually want; as
    these are on our new maintainer's list, perhaps we will see something like
    this.  As things stand now, however, I don't know that it would be a good
    idea to add even more overhead to each function call...

    --Nick Ingolia

    ningolia@[oxygen|neon|stu].ci.lexington.ma.us
    ingolia@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu

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